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Join hosts Ben Schiller and Danny Nelson as they seize the world of crypto.

Hello and welcome to Carpet Consensus.

I'm your host, Danny Nelson.

Ben Schiller is out this week, so I'm anchoring the show with a couple of guests.

We're going to talk about the latest and greatest in the crypto world.

We're going to start off with Inside the Desk.

Inside the Desk today, I've got Margo Nykirk. She's one of our excellent tech and protocols reporters at CoinDesk. Margo, I hear you've got

a story for us that gets into decentralization base, Coinbase, all this good stuff. What do you

got? Thanks, Danny. Thanks for having me here today. So I recently

wrote a story about Coinbase. They came out with their principles known as the base neutrality

principles, which basically is like a framework for how Coinbase's layer two base is going to

tackle decentralization and neutrality when it comes to the order of transactions.

And basically, like, just to give a high level overview of what it is, they're drawing their

principles off of optimism's law of chains, which is basically like a set of principles

aimed at uniting optimisms change under one framework and one vision, as they like to say, called the super chain.

The law of chains basically sort of sets up guidelines for different optimism's governance groups

to head towards that. And since base is using the OP stack, which is optimist in technology,

that's where they've sort of drawn this inspiration from. I think this is very interesting

because it sort of shows

Coinbase's delicate dance when it comes to trying to reap the benefits from its associated

network, but also not exude too much control over the layer two. So Margo, let's talk tech for a

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